Adam Schiff, head of the House of Representatives’ prosecution team, took to the Senate floor to deliver hours of methodical arguments to a hushed chamber that was hearing only the third-ever impeachment trial of a US president.
Schiff shrugged off Republican arguments that American voters – and not the Senate – should decide whether Trump should remain in the White House. “President Trump withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to a strategic partner at war with Russia to secure foreign help with his re-election,” Schiff said at the nationally televised proceedings.Interspersing his remarks with video testimony from the House inquiry, graphics and references to the Constitution, Schiff appealed to the Senate’s 100 members to put aside partisanship in deciding Trump’s fate.
Republicans, who hold a 53-47 edge, have shown little inclination, however, to break ranks with a president who has a history of lashing out ferociously at his perceived enemies. Trump blasted the proceedings as a “witchhunt” and a “hoax” and said he expected the Senate to clear him “fairly quickly.” With reports swirling that some Democrats were mulling pushing for Biden or his son Hunter, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company when his father was vice president, to testify in exchange for key administration officials being called as witnesses, the top Democrat waived it off.House impeachment managers have 24 hours over three days to make their case that Trump is guilty of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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